00:00Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascogne says he'll make a decision on the Menendez
00:04brothers' resentencing by the end of this week, citing the growing public push to release the
00:08brothers as his reasoning. Gascogne previously announced that his office was reviewing the
00:132023 habeas corpus petition filed by Eric and Lyle Menendez, which contains new evidence and
00:18asks for a resentencing of the brothers who are currently serving life in prison without parole
00:22for the 1989 murders of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez. The DA had previously set a
00:28hearing date for November 29th. But speaking to CNN on Tuesday, Gascogne, who is currently up for
00:33re-election, shared that he has moved up his timeline. He told Jake Tapper,
00:37I plan to have a decision by the end of this week, which is what I promised when we started getting a
00:41lot of inquiries. We had been looking at this case for over a year, by the way. We had a court time
00:46late November on the habeas, but given the public attention to this case, I've tried to come up with
00:50a decision earlier than that, and I will. The announcement followed the recently renewed
00:54interest in the decades-old case, thanks in large part to the hit Netflix drama series from Ryan
00:58Murphy, Monsters, the Lyle and Eric Menendez story, as well as the subsequent Netflix documentary that
01:03interviewed the brothers together for the first time in decades. The newly uncovered evidence that
01:08led to the habeas petition includes a recovered letter written by a then-17-year-old Eric to his
01:12cousin in 1988, eight months before the murders, that corroborates the brothers' self-defense claims of
01:18ongoing abuse from their father, as well as an abuse claim from a new witness, a member of the
01:23Puerto Rican boy band Menudo that was signed to RCA Records, where Jose was an executive.
01:27Last week, Eric and Lyle Menendez's extended family held a press conference calling for
01:31Gascon's help to overturn the brothers' convictions or resentence them. Their aunt,
01:36Joan Anderson Vandermolen, Kitty Menendez's sister, was one of the family members who spoke in front of
01:41the downtown Los Angeles courthouse.
01:42The truth is, Lyle and Eric were failed by the very people who should have protected
01:47them, by their parents, by the system, by society at large. As their aunt, I had no idea of the
01:58extent of the abuse they suffered at the hands of my brother-in-law. None of us did. But looking back,
02:07I can see the fear and tension that their father had instilled on them. They were just children,
02:14children who could have been protected and were instead brutalized in the most horrific ways.
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